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weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

The colours theme of the Vintage Vogue line from Pink Paislee is such a delight! It takes you right back in time but still perfectly blends in with today's photos. In this layout, Iris simply takes a few pieces from the ephemera pack and combines it with a few other elements such as a wooden bike shape and a few gems plus a butterfly and she already has a quick and easy but colourful and detailed layout for her daughter.

 

 

Here is another example from Iris on how easy it is to make a layout with the Vintage Vogue line from Pink Paislee.

 

 

 

Pink Paislee Nantucket could be considered a feminine beach/summer range with the large amount of pink that is used in this range. However, Kim has shown that being more selective about the elements used, it is definitely suitable for the boys and men in our lives too. Kim has used a large selection of the Ephemera to create the cluster on the right of the photo, carrying it across with two layered elements on the left side to bring focus to the photo strip.

 

Also from Kim, also using Nantucket but here she explores the more feminine side of the range as she documents her amazing weight loss journey. 

 

 

This beautiful layout was created by Jessy Christopher - a preschool teacher & an avid scrapbooker in Malaysia. According to Jessy, what she loves the most about scrapbooking is that it allows her the freedom to express herself in a creative form. We think she did that beautifully in this Pink Paislee layout where she created a background with lots of misting. For the journaling, I created lines using paint and also corrugated board.

 

 

Pink Paislee design team member created this stunning layout using the Sweetness range.  We love how she has reproduced a stylised version of the photo on the page with the heart outline and the strips representing the brick walls.  This is one of those layouts where the more you look the more you see!

2012 cha release: pink paislee

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

year in review: iris

While other people make year-end albums and pages, Iris makes it easier on herself by making one in advance. Here is a sample of how you can prepare for the coming year's events and photos.

This portfolio album from Pink Paislee comes with transparent sheets in different sizes. You can simply add scraps of papers from coordinating lines to come up with a simple design.

Once you have your photos, all you need to do is insert it in the slots and you are done.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

 

Louise loved the subtle colouring of the Pink Paislee Nantucket range, so much so that she purchased the 12 x 12 pad of papers! What also attracted Louise to this range was the non theme design of the patterned papers, the design of the Nantucket range is so versatile that it would suit Layouts and cards for both sex's and all age groups.  Louise has kept the design of her layouts simple and relatively unadorned, as the pattern of the papers was just too lovely to hide.

 

Polka dots will get Leeann’s attention any time. She adores this particular line named Soirée by Pink Paislee and found that it’s not just for scrapping about birthday parties. The patterned papers are just gorgeous and so is the colour palette. Because she wanted to use a little bit of each one, Leeann decided to go with creating the chevron pattern. 

This gives you the perfect opportunity to use multiple patterned papers. Leeann finish this double off by creating focus around the photo, using pattern paper punch circles, chipboard accents and created small embellishing clusters.

 

 

We have the most stunning creations by Karola Witczak who also happens to be on the Pink Paislee design team. On this page Karola has used a mixed of products from vintage vogue, Nantucket, butterfly garden, Junque and the wood shop alphabet.

 

 

On this page Karola has used the Soiree collection. The design and details are just amazing, love the clear stitched pocket filled with the mini notes and labels, the arrangement of banners and flags and finally the white paint dots.

 

Karola made this beautiful card using the mistables, soiree and Nantucket collection. Thank you so much Karola for letting us share some of your stunning creations.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

Louise rarely creates with this style of patterned papers; however in saying that she has decided she may very well have to change that as she just loved creating with this range of Pink Paislee.

The coordinated range of embellishments are just perfect and make the creation of a layout or card so so much easier, especially for someone who struggles with patterned paper as Louise confesses she does!  To add a little dimension Louise has used some wonderful Martha Stewart punches to create simple embellishments out the patterned paper.

 

 

As with the first layout, Louise has kept embellishment of this page to a minimum; as the patterned paper is so beautifully designed and doesn't require it.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Suz used the gorgeous Nantucket range, and in contrast to Lou above, she loved the embellishments so much she wanted them to speak for themselves so ended up using no patterned paper!  The patterns are represented though, in the cute hexagon Chip Tiles that Pink Paislee have introduced with this range.  She misted the wood shapes in co-ordinating tones of Glimmer Mist and Chalkboard, and layered the wood title with one from the Bling Stickers set.

 

 

 

Thank you to the amazing talent Steph Devlin for sharing with us this beautiful Pink Paislee layout featuring her gorgeous youngest daughter.  Steph has used the Butterfly Garden range in a way that emphasises its softness and beauty.

2011 cha summer: pink paislee

 

Delicious and delightful – Pink Paislee’s new lines might just fulfil your every scrappy wish!  Click here to see them all.

beyond the page memories: louise williams

 

 

Louise W loves the printer trays and has done a number of them, but this one is a special gift for her mother. Having very few family photo's to access from her mothers childhood makes this one a very personal reminder of the past, while including some beautiful details from the scrapbooking present.

 

beyond the page memories: suzanne tonga

 

 

 

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

 

Caz has been minding a friends kombi for a few months and finally got up the courage to drive it last week. She drove a friend and their 6 kids (3 each) to the ice skating rink. The kids bounced up and down on the very well sprung seats and sang all the way there (very loudly and out of tune). As they had nicknamed the Kombi "Little Miss Sunshine", any song with the word "Sunshine" in it was fair game. Caz chose the cute summery Hometown Summer range from Pink Paislee to scrap the event.

 

 

If there is a colour that always grabs Janine's attention, it is yellow!! It screams happiness to her, so she immediately fell in love with the oh so cheerful Soiree Collection by Pink Paislee and knew that yellow had to feature predominantly in her page. What Janine loved was the inclusion of the grey in the palette of brights, as it offsets all the brights beautifully, supplying the perfect contrast to the page.

Janine had lots of fun using Martha Stewart punches to add interest to the borders of her papers before layering them and clustering her embellies. The dimensional stickers were a fabulous touch to the page and the new tissue paper is wonderful for gathering for a little skirt under her photos. This collection is a "Sheer Joy" to work with

 

Seems Like the lovely Anna from Poland has a new collection to adore :))) It's SWEETNESS by Pink Paislee - and how SWEET is this layout. Anna also used Hambly overlays and some Glimmer Mists to make this gorgeous layout of her son Jeremy.

 

 

Pernilla created this amazing 3D star from Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology papers and decorated it beautifully with Prima flowers. This is just such an elegant project and we thank you for sharing it with us.

 

Wendy from Ontario, Canada has used the Pink Paislee Old School Collection to create this eye-catching sports themed layout. Thanks for letting us share your lovely work with our readers, Wendy.

 

 

This stunning layout was created by Tara Orr, using the Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology line. It is so sublime and beautiful and her choice of colours to customise her paper is stunning. Thanks so much Tara for sharing this page with us.

 

 

 

A big thankyou to Danielle Flanders from New York who is one of Caz's favourite scrappers for allowing us to showcase her gorgeous cards using the new Soiree range from Pink Paislee. We love all the tiny details that Danielle adds into her cards. scrunched tissue paper, jewelled pins, twine bows. Each card is a little piece of art.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

 

The warm, earthy colours of the Old School range were the perfect compliment to these photos of Louise's son's first day at school. By adding smears of acrylic paint and distressing ink, she added interest and grunged up the layout to suit her 'rough-and-ready' boy's fearless attitude.

 

 

 

 

Pink Paislee Hocus Pocus inspired Iris Uy to create this page for her daughter during her latest Trick or Treat activity. The Pink Paislee Parisian Anthology paper was a perfect base for this page because she easily blended in the colours of Halloween into the paper using distress inks over the resist images.

 

Anne Jo Lexander created this striking layout using Hocus Pocus papers and alphas.  We love how this range can work not just for Halloween but lots of other themes as well – great for teens and party pages!

 

Stacey Michaud is a designer for Pink Paislee and considers herself quite lucky to be able to play with such amazing products. She used the Hocus Pocus line to create a non-Halloween layout. The Hocus Pocus Arsenic arch was hand cut from a 6X6 sheet of paper and gives her title a clear starting point. She layered lots of stickers and rub-ons to add color and interest!

 

The gorgeous layout by the talented Kathleen Glossop shows the versatility of the Old School range, proving it's not just for school photos! with clever layering and small clusters to grab interest and draw your eye across the page, Kathleen has managed to keep the focus on the photo without overpowering it.

 

This gorgeous layout from Agnieszka Piskorz really shows off the diecut paper, stickers and co-ordinating elements from the Pink Paislee Old School collection. By creating her own flowers to use as a focal point, your eye is drawn back to the photo that has been cleverly framed with the banner stickers.

cha winter 2011: pink paislee

New and beautiful designs from Pink Paislee this year, including some interesting collaborations with some of our favourite companies including Collage Press, Heidi Swapp and the House of 3 and Tattered Angels…

 

 

 

 

 

 

countdown to christmas day 25: hero arts

 

 

Hero Arts stamps always give a beautiful crisp image when used. Sue loves to heat emboss the images to create a lovely glossy look. Sue has quite a collection of branch stamps and this holly flourish was the perfect addition! It is lovely to hang things off such as the cute baubles cut from patterned papers and embellished. You could also hang stars or snowflakes for a different look.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

For an eight year old boy, the world is pretty black and white. Things are either ‘awesome’, or ‘they suck’.  This layout is just a small reminder of the fashion do’s and don’ts in his world – good to have because even since creating this layout this list will have changed.

Suz has had some fun with the gorgeous Pink Paislee Artisan Elements in this layout – Glimmer Misting the flourish and allowing the ink to settle in the grooves for a great contrast, and inking and heat embossing the alphas for a grungy look.

 

 

 

  

 

 

Kathie loves any type of ledger paper. In her layout “You & Me”, she’s combined the ledger paper from Pink Paislee’s Starlight range with other coordinating papers from the collection. In keeping with the office product theme, she’s backed the entire layout on some blue text paper from October Afternoon. The embellishments are a mix of BasicGrey (Ambrosia and Max & Whiskers) and Jenni Bowlin.

 

 

 

 

We thank Wendy Smith from Tasmania for the above two layouts. She has used the 365 Degree range for her Day in the Life page. Inking and distressing combined with colourful patterned papers from the range makes this such a great boy’s page. And look at her clever stamping in the background.

 

 

 

 

 

The lovely Kim Arnold was invited by Pink Paislee to be a Guest Artist for Pink Paislee, and was sent products from the beatuiful new Sweetness line to play with.  The above three amazing layouts are just some of what she produced for them – and we thank her for allowing us to share them here.

cha july 2010: pink paislee

Pink Paislee has one of the most exciting releases this season, with three new paper lines and a fabulous collaboration with House of 3 for a innovative new range of products.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

 

 

Suz has combined the gorgeous 365 Degrees range with the stunning new Pink Paislee Artisan Flourishes.  On this page she has turned the uses for a couple of elements around – she has used the journalling blocks as light and shade instead of patterned paper, and used the full sheet of patterned paper for journalling. 

Though you can do almost anything to the Artisan Elements, here Suz has left them mostly plain, just highlighting sections with a silver foil marker.  The fun cork buttons and transparent border stickers complete the page.

 

 

Caz wanted to use the Pink Paislee die cut paper in a slightly different way. She saw this idea on a layout while browsing the net and decided to use it on this layout about what her son thinks is cool now he has turned 9. Caz studded the pleated border with brads to give the page a more 'blokey' feel and mixed 3 different types of letter stickers for some a more eclectic look.

 

 

We thank Jana Eubank for allowing us to share this stunning page.  Jana has used 365 Degrees  and lots of the fabulous emebellishments offered iwth it – from the cork buttons to the stunning large red Press-On design on the left of the page.  Though it’s a busy page it’s not overcrowded, and everything leads the eye to the delightful photograph.

 

 

 

A huge thankyou to Amanda Muirhead from Canada for sharing this layout of her cute little soccer star. To quote Amanda "I am excited to show off Pink Paislee’s new Starlight collection. These new papers were so much fun to work with.

I found that many elements from other Pink Paislee lines worked perfectly with Starlight. I used the cork from the 365 degrees line and a brad from the Bayberry Cottage line. For the title, I used three different Pink Paislee alphabets. Instead of O’s in the title, I used stickers from the Starlight collection.

 

 

 

We also have Amanda to thank for this gorgeous canvas she created for her Mum for Mothers Day from the Pink Paislee Bayberry range.. It was a project for the Pink Paislee Inspiration tour and if you visit Amanda's fabulous blog you can find step by step instructions on how to make your own canvas.

product focus: transparent elements

 

Using transparencies is a staple when Steph creates her layouts. Aussie Scrap Source is now wholesaling 7 Gypsies and they have some stunning transparencies available. On this layout, Steph used the ATC transparencies and mixed them with a few Hambly Transparencies. You can see the square angles of the 7G ATC Cards, and the floral motifs and clock have been hand cut from the ATC Cards.

Here Suz has layered transparencies from Little Yellow Bicycle and Pink Paislee.  She has used a large photo transparency to ‘frame’ the image her daughter would have been taking of the ducks on the lake while still keeping her own image including her daughter intact. 

The ‘capture the moment’ strip underneath the photo is one of Pink Paislee’s Borderline Clear Stickers from the 365Degrees line.  The daisies she has scattered over the page are not only translucent, but glittered, and really, no layout of Phoebe would be complete without a smattering of glitter!

product focus: canvas tags

 

 

When looking for a canvas tag to showcase for this post Caz fell in love with this tag from the Pink Paislee Cupid range. She then set out to create a holiday wish list layout from what is predominantly a Valentine's Day/Love range.

Strategic placing of some tags over any mention of Feb 14th helped disguise the original theme. She then added a mixed font title using letter stickers and hand cut words and some of the gorgeous designer brads to finish it off.

 

 

Despite the wonderful versatility of canvas tags for embellishing your projects and matting your photos, Louise just couldnt resist using these Pink Paislee Amber Road tags to create gorgeous flowers to embellish her layouts.For this first layout she has made a simple folded flower with leaves, which have then been then coloured with subtle shades of glimmer mist. She has then also cut small circles and a heart (all coloured with glimmer mist), to add further subtle embellishment to the page.

 

For this second layout, Louise has cut small circles from the canvas tags. She has then gently teased the edges to give them a soft frayed look to create the centre of her Glimmer Mist flowers. The added bling to the centres adds a gorgeous touch. Part of the title has also been created by cutting pre printed journaling from the tag.

weekend inspiration: pink paislee

Caz loved the combination of purple,orange and green in the Pink Paislee Twilight paper and wanted to utilize it for pages other than Halloween ones. In this layout she journals about the time in her life she remembers being the most scared. 8 years old, alone with Alfred Hitchcock's "The Birds" and a small suit of armour statue. She particularly loves the glittery chipboard letters and the random sizes they come in.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Well if there was a Patterned Paper Range that would kick start Louise's mojo it would be the Amber Road range from Pink Paislee. Louise adored creating with this range as it perfectly suits her love of vintage scrapping. But the range is so versatile it would also suit contemporary and arty styles of scrapping and OTP creations as well.

 

 

Here Carole showcases the older but still beautiful Spring Fling range of patterned papers.  We love the gorgeous little handmade birdcage she has created for this amazingly dimensional photo frame.

 

Another oldie but a goodie, the Enchanting line from the Winsome collection, Carole has showcased in this beautiful card.

 

A big thanks to Kim Watson in South Africa for sharing this cool layout with us about potion making. Even though the Twilight range was released as a Halloween line it has unlimited potential for layouts on any subject as Kim helps to demonstrate here. Love the little postage stamp photo in the top right hand corner Kim.

 

How gorgeous is this layout of Jen from Florida's little boy using the Pink Paislee Mistletoe & Co. range.
Jen writes - The days leading up to Christmas last year, Jacob would ask me "Was I good?" I'd always answer back "I don't know.... WERE YOU?!!! (He was a little nervous he was going to be getting coal in his stocking - Being a "Terrible Two" and all!!:)

We find it hard to believe that anyone this cute could possible be naughty.

 

 

Another lovely share from Jen is this altered coaster set. Jen added the handle and spout to the coaster holder. Made a lid, then drilled some holes into the coasters to make a mini album. All featuring the new Cupid line from Pink Paislee. Thanks for sharing your lovely work with us Jen.

 

Thank you very much to Danielle Flanders for allowing us to share her creation with the divine Abbey Road range of papers/products. With this particular layout she has used the range with a contemporary mix of paint and design, with wonderful effect.

cha winter 2010: pink paislee

 

 

    

countdown to christmas

If you want to create a feeling of sentimentality around your Christmas projects, you can't go past the beautiful Mistletoe & Co. product range by Pink Paislee. Bringing a delicious traditional palette of warm reds and gold with a hint of blue, Mistletoe & Co screams home, warmth, comfort and joy. Nicole created this layout using papers, stickers, rub-ons, die-cuts and brads from this range as well as her absolute favourite product from it all - canvas tags!

To add emphasis to her favourite canvas tags, Nic added strips of loose frayed canvas as mats under her photos and used a Tim Holtz mask with distress Ink to create the left-hand border.